John 11

¹Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Miriam and her sister, Martha. ²It was that Miriam who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus, was sick. ³The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

⁴But when Yeshua heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”⁵Now Yeshua loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. ⁶When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. ⁷Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”

⁸The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Judeans were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”

⁹Yeshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.¹⁰But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”¹¹He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

¹²The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

¹³Now Yeshua had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. ¹⁴So Yeshua said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.¹⁵I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”

¹⁶Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s also go, that we may die with him.”

¹⁷So when Yeshua came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. ¹⁸Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. ¹⁹Many of the Judeans had joined the women around Martha and Miriam, to console them concerning their brother. ²⁰Then when Martha heard that Yeshua was coming, she went and met him, but Miriam stayed in the house. ²¹Therefore Martha said to Yeshua, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. ²²Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

²³Yeshua said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

²⁴Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

²⁵Yeshua said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.²⁶Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

²⁷She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

²⁸When she had said this, she went away and called Miriam, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Rabbi is here and is calling you.”

²⁹When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him. ³⁰Now Yeshua had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. ³¹Then the Judeans who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Miriam, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

³²Therefore when Miriam came to where Yeshua was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

³³When Yeshua therefore saw her weeping, and the Judeans weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled, ³⁴and said, “Where have you laid him?”

They told him, “Lord, come and see.”

³⁵Yeshua wept.

³⁶The Judeans therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!” ³⁷Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

³⁸Yeshua therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. ³⁹Yeshua said, “Take away the stone.”

Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

⁴⁰Yeshua said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

⁴¹So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Yeshua lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.⁴²I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”⁴³When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

⁴⁴He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.

Yeshua said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”

⁴⁵Therefore many of the Judeans who came to Miriam and saw what Yeshua did believed in him. ⁴⁶But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Yeshua had done. ⁴⁷The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs. ⁴⁸If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

⁴⁹But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, ⁵⁰nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” ⁵¹Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Yeshua would die for the nation, ⁵²and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. ⁵³So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. ⁵⁴Yeshua therefore walked no more openly among the Judeans, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

⁵⁵Now the Passover in Judea was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. ⁵⁶Then they sought for Yeshua and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?” ⁵⁷Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.